The Holocaust

Question 1

when did the “Persecution” start

Answer 1

1935 when the Nuremberg Laws were passed making it illegal for Jews to do certain things like own a business

Question 2

When the war ended in 1945 how many Jews had been killed

Answer 2

6 million Jews out of the 11 million total people killed in the whole war

Question 3

Who was Hitler

Answer 3

He started the Nazi Party
Hated Jews
Absolute Dictator

Question 4

What was anti semitism

Answer 4

hatred or prejudice of Jews

Question 5

what was the Aryan race?

Answer 5

term used to desibre Germans as the suprioer peopel - white skin blond hair blue eyes tall

Question 6

What was Hitlers racial belief

Answer 6

that Germans were racially superior to Jews and Jews must be destroyed

Question 7

what 5 groups did Hitler order to be killed

Answer 7

Jews
Homosexuals
Disabled and mentally ill
Roma
Jehovah Witness

Question 8

What was life like for Jews before the Holocaust

Answer 8

they were normal citizens with jobs business and houses

Question 9

Why did Jews have to wear a yellow star

Answer 9

to identify them and to make them feel isolated like outcasts

Question 10

when jews were captured where were they made to live? 3 places

Answer 10

ghettos (small walled areas)
other countries
concentration camps

Question 11

at the Wannsee conference in 1942 the Nazis made plans for

Answer 11

The Final Solution

Question 12

What was the Final Solution

Answer 12

Code word for the plan to exterminate all Jews -

was planned at the Wannsee Conference of the Nazi party

Question 13

what was the actual result of the Final Solution

Answer 13

extermination of 2/3rd of all of europes Jews

Question 14

What happened during the Holocaust to try to weaken the Jews - 3 things

Answer 14

1. Synagogues burned
2. Jews into concentraiton camps
3. Jewish businesses destroyed (“Dont buy from Jews” campaign too)

Question 15

what countries did Jews live in before the Holocaust

Answer 15

mostly Poland and USSR
also Austria France Italy Holland and Romania

Question 16

what was kristallnacht

Answer 16

Night of the Broken Glass
9-10 Nov 1938
Riots across Germany where synogogues and Jewish homes were burned

Question 17

how did the Nazis find jews

Answer 17

• census information where they had to identify themselves
• reports from neighbours

Question 18

what were the forced labour camps

Answer 18

Jews who were storng enough to work had to do heavy work in these camps

Question 19

Genocide means

Answer 19

the mass killing of people due to their beliefs or race

Question 20

When the war endded in 1945 how many Jews had been killed

Answer 20

6 million Jews out of the 11 million total people killed in the whole war

Question 21

what were the Nuremberg Laws

Answer 21

laws introduced in 1935 to take away the rights of Jews and to restrict their political and social life

Question 22

what were the Nuremberg Trials

Answer 22

Court trials after the war of Nazi nvolved in the Final Solution (killing of Jews)

Question 23

what was the Holocaust

Answer 23

mass slaughter of Jews and other groups regarded as inferior by the Nazis